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Re: Re: It is time to act!
Jean-Marc FLAMENT
Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:03:34
Hello,
I am obviously sensitive to the argument of Ababacar Diop according to which * as African exposed to the anguishes of poverty, the malnutrition and the illness, he could have considered the solution of these injustices a previous condition to his participation in the forum.*
Concerning this, I want to point that I don't claim to do a dismissal and a judgment by the ICC a personal condition of my implication in the forum but I confirm that it is an indispensable condition to the working of one future WP. How could we do operate this one if, on a question as important as the war or the peace, some governments can violate the international rules with impunity and can challenge the world public opinion?
This is why I think that it is now more useful to fight against the terror that the governments and the US and British armies inspire to the whole world, more useful to stop them from drawing the least advantage of their crimes, more useful to do to them pay economically and electorally their baseness than to debate methods of working of the future WP because anyway, we will be confronted at one moment or another to this question: how to do respect by the states the decisions of this WP.
And this concerns either the problem of the development in Africa than the peace in Iraq.
I've been by chance one day in presence of one interview done by one my friends to the representative in Africa of the IMF. This one explained to him how the assignment of the aids of the IMF was conditioned by favorable prices asked to the African governments for their raw materials in favor of the American companies and how the corruption was instituted within, if the African leaders refused these conditions, the threat to arm their opposition or to put a term to the American humanitarian aid in their country.
I am the first conscious that the European governments, of which mine (Belgium) and that of my friends (France), are not innocents in this but the USA go farther still since they use to their service the international bodies.
In our European countries, there is an awareness raising that already began in 1968 on the responsibility of our governments in the increasingly crying injustices of the world that surrounds us and one sees a sensitive evolution in the way of which our governments consider these problems. Belgium has just recognized for example, its responsibility in the murder of Lumumba and to judge authors of the Rwandan genocide.
The American nation seems to me extensively late in its awareness of its responsibilities to the consideration of poverty in the world.
It seems to believe still in the myth of the freedom of its medias and believes to be well informed.
If it could have seen, this Wednesday March 26 on * France 2 * (French TV), the inhabitants of the small village of Saiwan at the Iraq - Kuwait border, surrounded by soldiers of the coalition, receiving their humanitarian aid while chanting anti-American and favorable slogans to Saddam Hussein, if they had heard the interviews of these people that said with anger, that they were disarmed but that they would continue to fight against the American with God's only aid, they would have taken the measure of the gigantic lie of their leaders that pretends to be liberators.
Frank Houck wrote recently that the question discussed in UNO was *between to disarm Saddam Hussein and nothing to do. He talked with a good will that if there had been a third way to disarm Iraq peacefully, it would certainly have had the majority of the suffrages*. It shows well the disinformation exercised by the US medias. Because France, Germany, Belgium, China and Russia didn't ask about not to do anything but about to let the inspectors of the UNO disarm Iraq peacefully since these inspectors asserted that Iraq was actively cooperating.
Indeed, there was a majority in the UNO to continue this pacific disarmament and it is precisely for this that Bush let fall his liar's mask while asserting that his objective is the failure of Saddam Hussein's, which is just as false since he took care to announce that even if Saddam left the power he would enter in Iraq.
The truth is that there are not Iraqis escaping from Iraq, that instead of this those that lived abroad come back by hundreds to defend it, and that the embargo decided by the *geniuses* of the Pentagon was revealed the best of the cements for the Iraqi unity against their anglo-américains aggressors.
The truth, it is also that the Jordanian government exerts to deny the presence on its territory of American troops that there has been filmed anyway and that, because its population is 100% for Iraq and against the USA which proves that the warring coalition can only be successful in their operations while corrupting the régimes in place and while forcing them to act as dictators.
The moment of the fight against this oligarchy placed at the head of the United States and some European countries, an oligarchy which is responsible not only of the war but of the economic system which leads to the poverty in the world and specially in Africa, has come in my opinion.
If we let these bastards (my apologies, I don't see any other words) to take the Iraqi oil and to reinforce their power in the world, it is neither tomorrow that their economic system will stop doing devastations.
Their economic system, it is precisely the law of the strongest, of the strongest financially, intellectually, militarily. These are the apostles of the hardest capitalism, that one build over the poverty of the others.
In face of this, in most European countries, the social security has the tendency to protect the lowest. In Iraq Saddam Hussein's régime had guaranteed to the population the exemption from payment of the medical care and the teaching of the kindergarten also, until the university. In the United States, the economically low people are delivered to themselves. It develops a frightening criminality and a very hard repression. This model of society, we cannot tolerate that it is exported all over the world in the form of a globalization *made in USA*, an only economic one.
I would not wish a Communist globalization more but there are other systems as this one that you can read in French or English at: <http://www.yhad.org/robin/robin1.htm>
I also have clear enough ideas on the way to conceive the WP among others to take account of the recent suggestions of Marie France fearing with reason the creation of rigid structures that would end up not having another aim that to perpetuate themselves.
But all this will remain in the field of dreams if we let do what is unmentionable.
Kind regards
Jean-Marc Flament
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
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